Equal Rites, Unequal Outcomes

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Lilli S. Hornig

      Pages 1-15

3. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Dreaming and Scheming

      • Catharine R. Stimpson

      Pages 19-30

   3. The Current Status of Women in Research Universities

      • Lilli S. Hornig

      Pages 31-51

   4. A National Profile of Academic Women in Research Universities

      • Helen S. Astin, Christine M. Cress

      Pages 53-88

4. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Gender, Faculty, and Doctoral Education in Science and Engineering

      • Mary Frank Fox

      Pages 91-109

   3. You’ve Come a Long Way

      • Charlotte V. Kuh

      Pages 111-143

   4. The Presence and Participation of Women in Academic Science and Engineering: 1973–1995

      • J. Scott Long

      Pages 145-174

   5. Explaining Sex Differences in Publication Productivity among Postsecondary Faculty

      • Kimberlee A. Shauman, Yu Xie

      Pages 175-208

5. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. Women in the Academy

      • Carol S. Hollenshead

      Pages 211-225

   3. Organizational Change to Support Success of Women

      • Linda P. Fried, Emma Stokes, Susan MacDonald, Cynthia Rand, Joan Bathon

      Pages 227-244

6. Part IV

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245

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   2. Primatology, Archaeology, and Human Origins

      • Londa Schiebinger

      Pages 247-256

   3. Transforming Knowledges

      • Piya Chatterjee

      Pages 257-278

7. Part V

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279

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   2. Women’s Uneven Progress in Academia

      • Marianne A. Ferber

      Pages 281-309

   3. Work/Family/Life Issues and Programs in Higher Education—What’s New

      • Kathleen Sullivan

      Pages 311-317

Thirteen years ago, in June 1988, the Radcliffe Classof1953 celebrated its 35th Reunion. Amidst the festivities, we who participated repeatedly asked ourselves the same two questions: Is Harvard as sexist as it was when we were undergraduates? If not, what is the status ofwomen at Harvard today? To find the answers we formed an ad hoc committee and charged the members to report back to the class in five years. The committee interviewed selected senior and junior Harvard faculty, Harvard and Radcliffe administrators, students, and alumni/ae. We identified and studied Harvard and Radcliffe reports on their institu­ tions and on their student organizations. We contributed to and participated in a 1990 Radcliffe Focus Group, "ASurveyofAlumnae and Undergraduate Perceptions. " We found that the University was not as sexist in 1988 as it had been in 1953. Yet the status ofwomen, though improved, remained quite unequal to thatofmen. (Radcliffe College was organizationally separate from Harvard University until 1977, when a "non-merger merger" was implemented. However, Radcliffe had no fac­ ulty of its own and employed Harvard faculty to teach its students, in strictly separate classes until World War II. The merger effort was com­ pleted in 1999 with the complete integration ofthe two institutions and the formation ofthe Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, a "tub on its own bottom" like other Harvard graduate and professional schools. ) In 1993 the Class of'53 voted unanimously to form the Commit­ tee for the EqualityofWomen at Harvard (CEWH).

• Gender
• education
• higher education
• intervention
• quality
• university

• The Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard, USA

  Lilli S. Hornig

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